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Alley Cat
Published by
IBM
Developed by
Synapse Software Corporation
Released
1984
Also For
Atari 8-bit, PC-88
Genre
Action
Perspective
Platform
Theme
Arcade
Description
Alley Cat is an action game consisting of several mini games tied together. You're a little black cat who wants to make love to a pretty lady cat that lives in an apartment complex. Play all kinds of cat-themed mini games in order to reach her and score as many points as you can while doing so. You start out in an alley and need to get inside the apartment by climbing on garbage cans and a fence. Next, jump on a clothesline and through several open windows while big dogs try to eat you and people throw garbage at you. Outside of the apartment complex you can score points by eating the mice that run across the clotheslines. Once you've jumped through a window you enter a room where you play a randomly assigned mini game. These mini games include: eating all the fish in a fish bowl, stealing milk from a bunch of bulldogs, pushing a birdcage from a table and eating the bird, catching mice inside a big cheese, pushing vases from a cabinet. To make things harder there's always a broom inside every room that tries to knock you around. You score points by completing the mini games within a certain time (the faster the better). After you've completed a mini game you're back in the alley. Make your way back inside the apartment complex and you get a chance to play the love-cat game: try to reach the lady cat on the top row of hearts while rival male cats and cupid's arrows knock you down. After you've mated, the difficulty gets cranked up a notch.
From Mobygames.com. Original Entry
Identifier msdos_Alley_Cat_1984
Emulator dosbox
Emulator_ext zip
Emulator_start AlleyCat/CAT.EXE
Mediatype software
Scanner Internet Archive Python library 0.7.5
Year 1984
Publicdate 2014-12-27 00:20:08
Addeddate 2014-12-27 00:20:08
Date 1984
Mobygames http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/alley-cat
Creator Synapse Software Corporation
Backup_location ia905908_28
Reviews
Subject: I wanted to like it
Subject: timeless fun
Most things in the game will try to kill you or screw you over in a number of ways. Some of the entities will work together in order to kill you. For example the white garbage cat will kick you off a bin for the nasty dog to catch you.
The platforming is awkward to say the least. I like to think that it's intentionally so and it adds to the comedic factor.
It's highly recommended that you play this with friends starting from the kitten level and taking turns with the cat lives.
Subject: So much memories...
It's so amazing to be able to play it again! :D
My favourite room is absolutely the one with the bulldogs and the milk, the least favourite the fish bowl!
@jeremy1024: the action key is ALT ^^
Subject: A classic
Subject: Fun Game When I was a Kid
Anyone know what the action key is?
I remember being able to go threw the holes in the cheese and a few other things. Unfortunately I think it was the F1 key. Which here brings you to the Google Chrome Help dialog.
Subject: Alley cat
Always seemed to work on what ever computer you were using. My 1st PC had 540K of ram and a 10 meggabyte hard drive.
Subject: Great game for the kids (or a quick go on a break)
